Mark Herrmann joined the John Purdue Club staff in April of 2020 as the director of leadership and alumni engagement. He is charged with enhancing the JPC's efforts to engage student-athlete alumni, as well as cultivating, developing and stewarding donors who can help make a leadership impact on Purdue Athletics.
Herrmann also has work experience with the Krannert School of Management, in financial services with UBS, as the associate director of education programs for the NCAA and with St. Vincent Health.
Herrmann is a 1981 graduate of Krannert School of Management with a bachelor's degree in business management. While at Purdue, he was a unanimous first team All-American and the Big Ten Most Valuable Player in 1980 and is one of only three Boilermaker quarterbacks to have started three or more consecutive bowl games. He is the only one to have won three, earning MVP honors in the 1978 Peach, 1979 Bluebonnet and 1980 Liberty bowls. He became the first quarterback in NCAA history to throw for 8,000 yards in a career and would finish as the first quarterback to throw for 9,000 yards.
Herrmann played 11 seasons in the NFL and was inducted into the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2010. Following his NFL career, he served as a radio color commentator for the Colts for ten years.
A native of Cincinnati who grew up in Carmel, Indiana, Herrmann now makes his home in Indianapolis with his wife Susie and three children.
Herrmann also has work experience with the Krannert School of Management, in financial services with UBS, as the associate director of education programs for the NCAA and with St. Vincent Health.
Herrmann is a 1981 graduate of Krannert School of Management with a bachelor's degree in business management. While at Purdue, he was a unanimous first team All-American and the Big Ten Most Valuable Player in 1980 and is one of only three Boilermaker quarterbacks to have started three or more consecutive bowl games. He is the only one to have won three, earning MVP honors in the 1978 Peach, 1979 Bluebonnet and 1980 Liberty bowls. He became the first quarterback in NCAA history to throw for 8,000 yards in a career and would finish as the first quarterback to throw for 9,000 yards.
Herrmann played 11 seasons in the NFL and was inducted into the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2010. Following his NFL career, he served as a radio color commentator for the Colts for ten years.
A native of Cincinnati who grew up in Carmel, Indiana, Herrmann now makes his home in Indianapolis with his wife Susie and three children.